Posted on 06/16/2005 1:55:10 PM PDT by Selkie
Does the world need a Martha Stewart of parenting? Isabel Kallman would like to submit her résumé.
By Randall Patterson
The birth of the alpha boy was a planned event—“Very much so,” said his mother, Isabel Kallman—and occurred when the timing was right, on a fine spring day, after an intense 29-hour labor.
His parents were both Ivy Leaguers and lifelong New Yorkers, people with “a lot of self-starter DNA,” as Craig Kallman said, “wired for an insane pace.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newyorkmetro.com ...
This woman is a perfect example of why some people shouldn't breed.
With parents like that, the kid has a better than 50/50 chance of ending up suicidal, alcoholic/drug addict, and/or homosexual.
Oh, and my dad helped with the raising...can't leave him out.
Child-rearing is “an endless amount of work, but I wouldn’t call it a burden pay other people to do it,” she says.
“The world revolves around Ryland,” he says. “I was the master of the house. Then he was born, and I’m no longer king of the house.” Isabel could not believe her ears: “Craig said that? I would have said he was never king of the house!”
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And there was one more thing he wanted to say about balance: Isabel had given him a talking-to, and he truly never was king of the house. Their household had been a democracy, he said, and was now an autocracy. “There’s no question Ryland runs the house.”
I'm betting the boy turns out gay.
Oh, and my dad helped with the raising...can't leave him out. >>>>>>>
Yes ! Your Mother fits the term of what a real Alpha Mom would be.
I read the entire article and Im still spitting mad.
I don't even have children yet, but I know that I would never treat Motherhood as some kind of psuedo scientific/business plan experiment.
Hope this kid grows up and never speaks to his parents again !
My sicilian boyfriend would've kicked her into the gutter with an attitude like that.
Gay is likely. Spoiled, narcissistic, egotistical twit is absolutely, positively guaranteed.
Or worse, a Democrat.
What. A. Bitch.
I couldn't read the whole article. These people are completely insane! I'll take our more relaxed lifestyle out here in flyover country.
These people are insane.
I agree. This story is absurd on so many levels...a look inside the warped minds of the Blue State elite. I am certain none of the adults mentioned there have ever voted for a Republican!
That's one of the most disgusting things I've ever read.
I don't have kids yet, but man! I know better than that.
Isabel wants Ryland to be happy, and he can’t be happy unless he’s in control. Thus, when he wants a cookie, she gives it to him. Thus, when in the car he wants his shoes off three blocks from the destination, she takes them off. Thus, she’s over there in her office.
Craig worries that Ryland’s getting spoiled. Isabel cites research saying that spoiling is an obsolete notion, that “a close parent relationship fosters independence.”
Until they committed suicide at 15.
They lost my sympathy when they named the kid "Ryland." My boys are Bill, Tom, Pat, and Jim.
This was motherhood’s magic bullet, the most valuable lesson Isabel learned in her studies: “It takes a village.” Isabel quickly hired one. Her son was just 2 weeks old when she retained a night nurse. When he was 5 months, “I started realizing I needed to get out more,” and she brought on a nanny. Then after about a year, when she started working, “I obviously needed more help,” so she hired a regular babysitter as well—also often employing her father and an Alpha Mom intern.
My mother would call this mother a wimp. She'd roll her eyes first, though, and and say "oh, brother" in that special way she does.
mark for later
(Quick, where'd I put the holy water ... ?!?)
I'm reminded of the character of "Veruka" from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Doesn't her mother say to the father, "Children's happiness is what is important dear, just their happiness."?
Remind me never to go to New York.
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